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11/10/2013

Splendore a Venezia

The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts, Montreal

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents this world premiere innovative exhibition, the exclusive Canadian venue, exploring for the first time the important interrelationships that exist between the visual arts and music in the Venetian Republic, from the early sixteenth century to the fall of the Serenissima at the close of the eighteenth century. An achievement that took more than five years of work and planning!

Thanks to outstanding loans from 61 prestigious museums and collectors from prominent international collections, like the Musée du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art (Washington), the Palatine Gallery, Uffizi, Capitoline, Thyssen-Bornemisza, the National Gallery (London) and the Cité de la musique in Paris, the visitors will discover the splendours of Venice through the musical scene.

Featuring approximately 120 paintings, prints and drawings, as well as historical instruments, musical manuscripts and texts, including the first edition of The Four Seasons by Vivaldi, the exhibition paints a portrait of extraordinary artistic and musical creativity.

Splendore a Venezia, organized, developed, produced and circulated by the Museum, brings together masterworks by many of the most renowned names associated with the city on the lagoon: visual artists directly associated with the musical life of the city include Titian, Tintoretto, Bassano, Giovanni Battista and Domenico Tiepolo, and Francesco Guardi, many of whom were also amateur musicians, as well as Bernardo Strozzi, Pietro Longhi and Canaletto, whose paintings record the role of music in Venetian life. The exhibition also includes manuscripts and publications by Venetian composers like Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Albinoni, Lotti and Vivaldi.

The exhibition is under the direction of Nathalie Bondil and Hilliard T. Goldfarb, the exhibition curator. In addition, the Museum is honored to receive the high patronage of His Excellency Mr. Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic.

Image: Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), The Minuet, 1756, Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Legs Francesc Cambó (1949), Photo Calveras / Mérida / Sagristà

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1380 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H3G 1J5
Hours:
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday * 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Thursday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Friday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Please note that on Wednesdays, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m, only the temporary exhibition is open. Entrance fees are reduced to $10, except for group rates
Admission:
Ages 31 and over $20
Ages 13 to 30 $12
Ages 12 and under FREE

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